The Problem of Nationality Read Before the Liverpool Philomathic Society May
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Professor Huxley * quotes the example of the Feegeans, whose physical peculiarities prove their intimate relationship with their neighbours the Negritos of New Caledonia, but who, nevertheless, speak a Polynesian language. Coming nearer home, we see in France how the ancient languages once spoken by the Belgae, Celtae, and Aquitani of Caesar's time, have almost entirely disappeared. One set of invaders from the north compelled those peoples to adopt a Teutonic name, while another set from the s...outh- east gradually imposed on them a new language. Yet how false to history and fact would be the inference that, because the French people speak a Latin language, " this population was essentially and fundamentally a ' Latin ' race which had some communication with the Celts. " " Community of language, " gays Huxley, " testifies to close contact between the people who speak the language, but to nothing else ; philology has absolutely nothing to do with ethnology, Methods and . Results of Ethnology, " in his Critiquet and Addresses, p.
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